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[3] λόγχαι καὶ μάχαιραι κοπίδες ὑπερμήκεις. τό τε χωρίον, ἐν ᾧ τὸν ἀγῶνα ποιησόμεθα, σύνεργον ἡμῖν τοῖς ἀπὸ μετεώρου κατιοῦσιν ἐπὶ τὸ πρανές, ἐκείνοις δὲ πολέμιον τοῖς ἐκ τοῦ χθαμαλοῦ πρὸς τὰ μετέωρα χωρεῖν ἀναγκαζομένοις. φοβείσθω δὲ μηδεὶς ὑμῶν [p. 254] μήτε τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πολεμίων μήτε τὸ μέγεθος, μηδ᾽ εἰς ταῦτά τις πλεονεκτήματα αὐτῶν ὁρῶν ἀθυμότερος πρὸς τὸν ἀγῶνα ἔστω, ἀλλ᾽ ἐνθυμείσθω πρῶτον μέν, ὅτι κρεῖττόν ἐστιν ἔλαττον στράτευμα ἐπιστάμενον, ἃ δεῖ πράττειν, ἢ πολὺ ἀμαθές: ἔπειθ᾽ ὅτι τοῖς μὲν ὑπὲρ τῶν ἰδίων ἀγωνιζομένοις ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ θάρσος τέ τι πρὸς τοὺς κινδύνους παρίστησι, καὶ πνεῦμα ἐνθουσιῶδες ὥσπερ τοῖς θεοφορήτοις παρέχει, τοῖς δ᾽ ἁρπάσαι τὰ ἀλλότρια προθυμουμένοις μαλακώτεραι πρὸς τὰ δεινὰ αἱ τόλμαι φιλοῦσι γίνεσθαι.
Dionysii Halicarnasei Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Keyboarding.
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